RYAN LEE Cause Your Investment Losses? Investor Alert! The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) BrokerCheck report for prior Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC broker Ryan Lee (CRD#: 4169548, Wayne, New Jersey) confirms that clients disputed his sales practices. In addition to the five plus investors who took aim at Lee’s sales practices, Fidelity discharged him for […]

WARNING! Customer Disputes Involving Key Investment Services, DEBORAH CALDER Deborah Calder (CRD#: 4137234, Portland, Oregon) is a previous securities broker of Key Investment Services LLC. She worked in Key Investment Services’ Portland, Oregon offices from March 26, 2014 to March 3, 2017.  Apparently, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) BrokerCheck Report for Calder shows that […]

FREDERICK HOLLOWAY Barred For Unsuitable Recommendations The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) issued Decision #: 201605002401 on April 11, 2019, barring securities representative and owner of Holloway & Associates Inc., Frederick David Holloway, (CRD#: 248814, Easton, Maryland) from the securities industry for making unsuitable annuity recommendations to investors and hiding information from FINRA when it […]

Frank C. Stewart, 48, of Ramey, Pennsylvania is facing charges of two counts of forgery, theft by unlawful taking, and theft by deception. He’s is accused of stealing $120,000 from an elderly client. Stewart is currently free on $25,000 unsecured bail. Allegedly, Stewart, without authorization, withdrew $120,000 from his 74 year-old client's Sun Life Financial […]

Great American Advisors, Inc. (CRD #36451, Cincinnati, Ohio) was censured and fined $100,000 by FINRA for failure to have adequate supervisory systems in place for the sale of variable annuities. FINRA's findings stated that because of this, two of Great American Advisors' independent contractor representatives recommended unsuitable variable annuity transactions for Great American Advisors clients. […]

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) filed a regulatory complaint against two former brokers from MetLife Securities Inc, (a unit of MetLife Inc). The brokers, Christopher Birli and Patrick Chapin, who both worked for MetLife in Williamsville, New York, until 2012, allegedly engaged in a seven-year scheme to inflate their commissions by having customers switch […]

Soreide Law Group, a Securities Arbitration Law Firm, (888) 760-6552, obtained the following information on FINRA’s website under “Disciplinary and Other FINRA Actions, June, 2013.” Cecilia Sawyer aka Cecilia Villanueva (CRD #2549482, Registered Principal, Federal Way, Washington) was barred from association with any FINRA member in any capacity. The sanction was based on findings that […]

Recently, on the Financial Regulatory Industry Authority's (FINRA) website, they posted a very valuable article on equity-indexed annuities. The following information is from this article. "Sales of equity-indexed annuities (EIAs)—also known as "fixed-indexed insurance products" and "indexed annuities"—have grown considerably in recent years. Although one insurance company at one time included the word "simple" in […]